jet bomber

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The Gloster Meteor was the first jet warplane to enter the war, and the English Electric Canberra high speed jet bomber was adapted by the American Air Force as the B-57.

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2018

Test pilots of the new planes – Gloucester Meteors, Britain's first jet fighter, the Canberra, the first jet bomber in the world, Javelins, Lancasters, Halifaxes, Sterlings – were heroes.

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2012

During predawn darkness in the mid-Pacific atomic proving grounds, the B-52 intercontinental jet bomber Barbara Grace roared upwards from Eniwetok Air Base, the big bomb in its belly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Victor jet bomber, in peacetime invented the slotted wing, which blunderproofs planes against low-speed stalls; in London.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the men around the table were as modern as a jet bomber.

From Call Him Savage by Pollard, John